I wish I could be here more often these days but it’s just not happening right now. We have renovation going on upstairs in our house, side projects, my parents arriving next week, and simply the business of every day life–we are all on the same boat, aren’t we? I cannot wait to be back with stories and pictures, though, so much thanks for your patience. For those of you I will meet this coming Saturday for the book signing, I am really super happy. It will be such a special moment for me.

In any case, today, I am still saying hello, with a recipe I wrote a while ago for the Boston Globe. You know how much I love celeriac. The French often do. Do you remember this soup, this salad, and this tart?

Oh how I love celeriac. It was just yesterday when I made a celeriac purée as a side. It’s much too often that it gets neglected in the kitchen. Such a shame.
One thing I’m wondering: do you have any suggestions about how to clean and peel celeriac best?

Oh how delicious these recipes look. I love all root vegetables and have so many celeriac recipes I want to try. Unfortunately I live in rural upstate New York and cannot find them at any store or market. Oh well, my list will just keep growing with gorgeous recipes like this!

Looks like a great recipe, celeriac is such a mystery to me, but always rewarding. I have been enjoying the work of art that is your cookbook so much. It sits next to my couch right now, so that I can peruse it whenever I have the chance. I have cooked a risotto, baked the cranberry cake and the oatmeal cookies, and made one of the soups, too, I think! Everything has turned out wonderfully. Someone commented on how nice it was that the cake is not too sweet, I couldn’t agree more. It is such an obvious labor of love, thank you!

Béatrice Peltre is a food writer, stylist and photographer working out of her home studio in Boston.
She is a regular contributor to the Boston Globe Food Section, and her work has appeared in many publications
such as Saveur, Food and Wine, Whole Living, Fine Cooking, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, the Huffington Post,
the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Edible Boston, Living France, the New York Times Diner’s Journal,
and in many other international magazines.